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frequenttimetraveler t1_j63gm81 wrote

Reply to The next globalisation: there is growing support for the idea that the world is experiencing not 'deglobalisation' but rather 're-globalisation', owing to accelerating changes in energy and technology. by Vucea

More true than not. The deglobalization team seems to want the world to go back to 1979, with cold war in full rage and all the money being spent to defense projects. But I m not sure that nationalist idea is particularly popular today. Even long-standing neutral countries like Switzerland and the Scandis are no longer neutral but willing to defend this US-led globalized order. And it make sense why

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frequenttimetraveler t1_j5z6m5g wrote

Reply to Is Prompt Engineering the Career of the Future? by sopmac21379

Eh , no, this is just a temporary thing as the technology is being devleoped. Despite the fact that OpenAI is already selling their APIs, this is not teh final form of the tech, not even a mature form.

btw don't post Medium articles. I m not signing up just to read posts by bloggers who cant even set up their own blogs

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frequenttimetraveler t1_j5yspe7 wrote

Reply to comment by SadMacaroon9897 in homeownership rate will be over 80% in the future because everyone will be able to own at least a small condo in low cost of living places due to remote work and indoor living. by Pitiful-Internal-196

Unironically, they know it, and it s generally true. However the megacapitalists of today are bona fide rent seekers and will always raise rents to usury levels. Take for example Uber: mega capital subsidises prices for a service that trains people rent cars and get food delivered. The business loses money but they keep piling up capital on it in order to change behavioral patterns. And when they (believe they) have done that, they start raising prices to unaffordable levels. Something similar, and worse, is happening with housing (airbnb, wework/ welive etc). They will eventually all become dependence relations .

The only way to fight this is to open up housing rules , allow new methods of construction and make housing dirt cheap, so that it has super low profit margins

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frequenttimetraveler t1_j5y1x1x wrote

Reply to homeownership rate will be over 80% in the future because everyone will be able to own at least a small condo in low cost of living places due to remote work and indoor living. by Pitiful-Internal-196

We have to fix it. We can't just simply lose our rent seeking profits just because people decide to build their own homes. No worry, we will introduce the most inane regulations making it impossible for people to build anything anywhere any time. We ll just call them 'environmental regulations' or historic preservation or something, and they ll be happy and own nothing

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frequenttimetraveler t1_j3q3pkw wrote

Reply to This biotech startup says mice live longer after genetic reprogramming by ChickenTeriyakiBoy1

Paper is pretty short and straightforward. They 'simply' delivered Yamanaka factors using an adenovirus vector, and the animals extended their REMAINING lifespan by 109% , which is a 6% increase in their overall lifespan. There s not a lot of discussion of cancers etc so let's wait until this passes peer review.

Oh, the wonders of science if you are a mouse

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frequenttimetraveler t1_iwy516m wrote

Reply to comment by JaggedMetalOs in Meta has withdrawn its Galactica AI, only 3 days after its release, following intense criticism. Meta’s misstep—and its hubris—show once again that Big Tech has a blind spot about the severe limitations of large language models in AI. by lughnasadh

nobody said they wouldn't

The galactica.org website had a prominent disclaimer in every page that the content is INACCURATE. But some scientists are so stupid they can't read

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frequenttimetraveler t1_iwx5cwo wrote

Reply to Meta has withdrawn its Galactica AI, only 3 days after its release, following intense criticism. Meta’s misstep—and its hubris—show once again that Big Tech has a blind spot about the severe limitations of large language models in AI. by lughnasadh

whoever is responsible for taking this down they have a big FU from me. This tool was useful for summarizing scientific subdisciplines that are still unexplored. Even if it was not accurate, it was helpful as a companion tool to sketch out the structure of review articles. I was actually planning to use it when writing my next review.

But yeah, idiots like this guy is why we cant have nice things. There s nothing dangerous about a toy, it's instead dangerous to infantilize people and submit to the whims of some extremely entitled people

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frequenttimetraveler t1_istem0v wrote

Reply to comment by upyourego in Rolls-Royce says a combination of quantum compputing and classical computing is likely to be in use for at least a decade before pure quantum takes over. The company is working with Classiq to create hybrid algorithms to speed up simulations for fluid dynamics and new materials. by upyourego

that s a pretty niche application, sure. But to claim that QC will "take over" from classical computing in our phones is just nonsense

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frequenttimetraveler t1_istbn39 wrote

Reply to Rolls-Royce says a combination of quantum compputing and classical computing is likely to be in use for at least a decade before pure quantum takes over. The company is working with Classiq to create hybrid algorithms to speed up simulations for fluid dynamics and new materials. by upyourego

Maybe they should stick to making engines. Quantum computing simply cannot "take over" , we don't even know if it has a useful place in computers tech at all.

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